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Organizational learning helps companies to improve their processes through the reuse of experiences. An area that may contribute to promote organizational learning is social learning. Collaborative tools, such as social networks and wikis, enable collaborative work and are important facilitators of social learning processes. However, collaboration is just one of the several needed components for learning. It is important that all acquired knowledge is organized to be reused faster, more easily and efficiently. For this, we propose using learning objects and units of learning to organize the content inserted in collaborative tools. In this context, there are some learning objects and units of learning metadata to describe relevant learning objects and units of learning characteristics, but since this metadata is proposed to describe educational units of learning and learning objects, it does not take into account organizational characteristics, important for knowledge-intensive organizations. Moreover, metadata is formally modeled through XML-Schema language, which lacks expressiveness. Thus, trying to solve these limitations, and integrate concepts from different models, this paper presents an ontology for organizational units of learning based on IEEE LOM standard, the IMS LD and IMS CP, to be used specifically by software development companies. This paper describes the ontology building process and shows how this ontology can be used in a software development company.